have fun at the museum

[optimistic pessimist]

Dear all,
After you went to a museum and enjoyed yourself, do you say, "I had great fun at the museum"?
A museum is not a place like Disney land. There's no excitement. But even so, you may find a lot of things very interesting and want to visit again. In that case, is it fine to use the word "fun" to express your feeling? Or is it better to say something like "I enjoyed it" or "I enjoyed myself?"

Thank you!

OP

 

[Matthew Wai]

There's no excitement.

I think you don't need excitement to have fun, but I am not a teacher.
There is no excitement on this forum, but reading the posts is fun.

 

[Matthew Wai]

Having fun​ suggests laughter to me.

Do you think learning English is not fun if learners do not laugh?

 

[lotus888]

Try:

I had a great time at the museum.


I think this forum is very fun! It is enjoyable, aggravating, enlightening, puzzling, and stimulating all at once.

It all adds up to a little bit of fun. There's great enjoyment in watching others teach and learn.

There's also a bit of an altruistic aura to all of this. No one has to be here, and yet here we are.


There's something about the art of teaching language.

The old adage that "those who can't, teach" is wrong. You can only know it if you can teach it.

The enjoyment is the struggle to teach and the things you learn as a teacher.



--lotus

 

[Roman55]

I had a great time at the museum.

I think this forum is very fun!

I am not a teacher.

I agree with, 'I had a great time at the museum' but I find 'very fun' very unnatural in BrE.

I do agree with the sentiment.

 

[MikeNewYork]

I don't thing learners are having fun if they are not laughing.

Does smiling not count?

 

[MikeNewYork]

I used to have lot of fun playing team sports. There was little laughter involved. I used to have a lot of fun at amusement parks, and laughter was not a big part of the experience. My favorite museum when I was growing up was the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. Very interactive. No laughter but great fun.

 

[TheParser]

***** NOT A TEACHER *****

I agree that the word "fun" does not necessarily involve laughter.

For me, there is (almost!) nothing that is so much fun as walking three or four miles in the city every day.

That is to say, walking in a big American city is interesting, exciting, and -- for me -- enjoyable.

But there is seldom anything funny about it! I am constantly on guard (cars, fellow pedestrians, broken sidewalks, etc.).

P.S. So why do I walk in the city? Because walking on a treadmill is definitely NOT "fun."

 

[MikeNewYork]

I agree about the treadmill. No sidewalk cafes. :lol: